The Lost Art Of Dreaming Over Maps
byI was talking to my friend Mark about mountain biking a while back when he mentioned linking together a bunch of shorter trails around…
I was talking to my friend Mark about mountain biking a while back when he mentioned linking together a bunch of shorter trails around…
In the span of a few minutes yesterday morning, I read about a shotgun-wielding man threatening a neighbor teaching his daughter to ride her…
Do you ever think hiking doesn’t get much respect anymore? Wait, better question: Remember that hiking film that showed at the Banff Mountain Film…
My mom threw up at the climbing gym, just after I lowered her from the top of a route. She came out of the…
Chad Kellogg died in Patagonia on Valentine’s Day this year, at 42 years old. I didn’t know him very well, just through a handful…
I was in the audience during a presentation at the Green Mountain College Adventure Education Colloquium last week, when the presenter, Jojo, asked everyone…
You probably read a few news stories over the past couple weeks about the rising popularity of beard implants, specifically the $3,000 to $8,000…
Rob at Green Garage in Denver understands the art of telling someone how expensive their car repair is going to be: You can’t deliver…
Three years ago, on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, I clicked “publish” on a blog post on this web site, and then put a link…
My parents gave me Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York book for a holiday gift, and I spent the next hour flipping from cover…
I hopped over a stream crossing the Bright Angel Trail, taking a big step from one rock to the next, then turned around to…
I watched Fight Club the other night for the first time in over a decade, out of curiosity if it would still seem as…
I sat under Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park, 60 minutes from Moab and 20 miles as the crow flies, on a busy fall…
My friends Dan and Janine have made lots of outdoor photos all over the world. You’ve probably seen them in Backpacker, Trail Runner, on…
I had about 10 minutes before my flight, enough time to grab one more cup of coffee. I had rushed to finish one more…
I pulled open the garage door on my storage unit in east Denver, smelling the dust that had accumulated during the two months since…
Nick mentioned a hot springs somewhere in southern Colorado, and I suspected it was one of those things he was doing because his girlfriend…
My old journalism professor, Michael Downs, sold me on Norman Maclean’s book Young Men and Fire almost 10 years ago when he told me…
I sat down exhausted last Tuesday night next to my friends Chris and Forest in front of a granite shelter we’d just built on…
In April, a piece titled “Stop Instagramming Your Perfect Life” started making its way around Facebook and Twitter. The author raised a point that…
My dad told me the other day he’d won a three-day Harley rental at a raffle. I said Dad, I think you have to…
My friend Forest put this photo on Facebook last December, with this caption: It was a hot day in July. Navigating the lunchtime jumble…
I flew to Iowa to visit my grandmother in the hospital a couple weeks ago. She’s been in and out of hospitals for the…
You call someplace home, and if you think about it, there are probably one or two big reasons for that. Maybe you grew up…
Six summers ago, a guy named Fred sat down across from me at a picnic table near Wonder Lake in Denali National Park, the…
This past Tuesday, a film called “35” went up on Vimeo — it’s 5 minutes and 17 seconds, including a ton of beautiful footage…
A couple weeks ago at a party, I saw Dave Nice for the first time in a long time. We started talking about the…